CLIFFSIDE PARK, N.J. – Some teachers at New Jersey’s Cliffside Park High School are sour over a recent senior prank, so they’re pressuring their colleagues to boycott the class of 2014’s senior luncheon.

How classy.

According to an anonymous source who wrote in to the Cliffside Park Citizen, “The Cliffside Park Education Association asked high school faculty not to attend the luncheon due to a senior prank which consisted of a water balloon fight on the second floor of the high school, in which a teacher was hit in the face and another teacher fell on the wet floor.”

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“The association did not feel that there were any consequences for the prank so they are asking teachers to boycott it. This boycott is a first for Cliffside Park and not all teachers are in favor of the action,” according to the email.

District superintendent Michael J. Romagnino told the news site the school’s principal responded appropriately to the incident, but did not elaborate on what, if any, punishment students faced for the water balloons.

“Mrs. (Lorraine) Morrow, our high school principal, addressed the incident with both staff and students in a professional and timely manner. I was informed by Anita Ferrante, CPEA president, that the CPEA is not boycotting the luncheon,” he said.

Ferrante also told the Citizen the union wasn’t involved in the boycott.

“This is not a CPEA sanctioned event! Please note that. The CPEA executive committee is not involved at all, nor were we even notified of this event. It has absolutely nothing to do with the CPEA,” she said in an email.

Regardless, the union didn’t discourage teachers from participating in the petty payback. Union officials often complain that their members are not “treated as professionals,” but this incident illustrates that the union itself often does little to encourage its members to act like professionals.

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Students pull pranks, and the senior prank has evolved into a rite of passage at many high schools. Students are immature and they want to go out with a bang.

Teachers are supposed to act like adults, and to rise above the nonsense to do what they can to help students succeed in life after high school. Harboring a silly grudge, and taking it out on other students who had nothing to do with the senior prank, just sets a bad example.

Thankfully, most of the educators at Cliffside Park High understand this concept, and “most of the teachers attended the luncheon,” principal Morrow told the news site.